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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-10-22
Grains of Gold.

He that always complains is new
er pitied.-Heber.
Benefits grow old betimes, but
injuries are often long livers.
lie that prepares net for anoth-
er should not shut his own eyes.
A little wealth will suffice us to
live we'll and still less to die well.
A fool may meet with good for
tune, but the wise only profit by 1T.
Dishonesty, duplicity and falsity
of character are business mistakes.
The man who is always ready for
rainy day seldom has rainy day.
The more virtuous man is the
more virtue does he see in others.
To scofi at natural defects is to
beat a poor cripple with his own
crutch.
A mans own good breeding is
the best security against other peo-
pie s ill-manners.
Nothing is more common or more
fatal than the grasping of an ad-
vantage at the cost of ten timesits
value.
No one should act so as to take
advantage of the ignorance OF his
neighbors-Cicero.
To be ever active in laudable pur-
suits is the distin gushing charac-
teristic of man of merit.-Prince
Consort.
Bad luck is simply a man with
his hands in his pockets and pipe
in his mouth, looking on to see
how it is coming out. Good luck
is man of pluck, with his sleeves
rolled up and working to make 1t
come out right.-Shoe and Leather
Rnpnr!ar
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Tools of the Ancients.

Steel was unknown to the an
clients, and copper was largely cm-
ployed for the purposes which steel
is now made to serve, the art of
hardening copper being known to
the mechanics of those days. Edge
tools such as chisels and axes were
made of this metal, and were used,
it is said, in the building of Solo
mons temple. 1t is supposed that
the early inhabitants Of America
also had the secret of hardening
copper, and copper tools have been
found in considerable number In
the ruined structures Of Mexico
and Peru. and even the North Amer
lean Indians appear to have pos
scssed the art to n limited extent.
A chisel found at Thebes contained
81 per cent. tin and per cent. iron;
and in the Scandinavian tumuli i'll
Denmark, not only chiscls, ham,
mers and axes, but knives and dag
gers of copper have been turned
up. After having lain dormant for
many centuries, the art of harden
ing copper has now, so to speak,
been discovered by citizen of New
Jersey, who has succeeded after
several years of experiment in aP-
plying a process to copper which
will give it hardness nearly equal
to that of steel. The cost is not
great, and the metal is fitted for
many uses for which it has not
hitherto been available. 1t will
stand a much longer exposure in
the electric bath than the unhard-
ened metal, and it is thought that
it will prove a substitute for the
metal now used for bearings. in
journal boxes.
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BURGLARS AND CHL0RoFoRM.

Careful inquiries among detect
ives and police authorities have
failed to show one single instance
where these officials have become
personally convinced that persons
robbed have been chloroformed.
All have heard of such cases, but
not one has come within their Own
knowledge.
Chloroform, as all physicians
know, is decided cerebral stimu-
iant-that is, it is really concen-
trated alcohol, administered by in
halation, and produces intoxica-
ton. All physicians who have ever
administered chloroform to a pa
tient know what resistance they
encountered. Any sleeping adult
not under the influence of power
ful hopnotic, would certainly be
awakened if an attempt were made
to make him inhale chloroform.
Besides all this, we are always told
that the persons who were chloro-
formed and robbed recovered. Ev-
cry physician knows that unless
it is carefully administered with a
proper admixture of atmospheric
air. the patient dies. Now why
should a subject in the hands OF
an ignorant burglar, inhaling chic
roform, have a better chaEce of re,
covery than a patient in the expe-
rienced hands of several skilled
and trained physicians who have
previously examined the action OF
,he heart, who cautiously watch
his pulse and closely adjust the
amount md quality of the chloro-
form and atmospheric air admin
istered. And yet we hear constantly
of deaths by the adminitration OF
chloroform by physicians hands!
but never death when given by
thieves.
Furthermore than this, We are
! told that burglars can administer
chloroiorm to several persons sleep
ing in the same room and produce
anmsthesia. OF course it would be
sheer nonsense To- talk of burglars
limprcgnating the entire atmosphere
of an apartment with chloroform
for that would necessitate many
hours labor with the atomizer. Q
supply of more chloroform thar
burglars would carry, and would
leave the air irrespirable by th,
thieves. These statements, which
any physician will confirm, w,
think, prove clearly that chloroform
ing by burglars is a popular myth
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General Lees Advice to Young Wives

"How well / remember General
Robert f. Lee, then a major, who
was stationed there at that time
He was the beau ideal Of a soldier
and a gentleman. When bidding
us goodbye and God speed upon
the eve of our departure, he said to
me: Il understand that you con-
template deserting your post, which
is by your husbands side, and that
you are not going to California with
him. If you will pardon me, |
should like to give you a little adj
vice. You must not think of doing
this. AS one considerably older
than Hancock, and having had
great experience, l consider it fatal
to the future happiness Of young
married people upon small provo
cation to live apart, either for a
short or long time. The result is
invariably that they cease to be es-
sential to each other. Now, prom
ise me that you will not permit him
to sail without you The sequel
shows how faithfully l sought to
follow that noble admonition, and
how after, in my varied experience,
| had occasion to transmit to 9TH
ers his disinterested, truthful con-
victions. With many regrets we
bade adieu to host of our friends
most of whom l never saw again.
Not so with my husband, however.
He met them face to face on the
battlefield in ess than three years. "
Mrs. HancOck's S Book.
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set of teeth was given to DIR. John
Greenwood. and Greenwood's son
gave them to DR.. John Allen, who
in turn presented them to the Bal
timore Dental College" The jaws
are spread open and fastened on a
small upright, showing plates OF
silver and other metals, which fas-
tened the assures in the ivory into
one solid piece. According to APP
pearances the condition of the Gen
erals mouth was far from pleasant.
The set that Washington obtained
in New York was undoubtedly one
of Porcelain ware, then coming
into general use. The materials
used were the same as In making
parthen ware.
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EXPLOITS OF A WESTERN GIRL

A pleasing story of a beautiful
and accomplished young lady at
st. Vincent, Mimi, is told by a
special dispatch, and it comes to us
like a cool fountain in a prohibi-
tion state.
1t seems that the lady's name is
Miss Lillian Blake, daughter Of II.
Blake, and that, in the words of the
dispatch, "after helping her father
stack l06 loads of wheat yesterday
she went over into Geroux's swamp
alone in the afternoon to snatch a
half hour OF rest and recreation.
She took her fathers shotgun with
her, and, as the special had it,
KILLED six large and desperate
swamp bears"
The bears didn't want to fight,
but dun 'em, they had to. The first
one tried to crawl into a hollow log
and dodge the issue, but the airy,
fairy Lillian grabbed him by the
hind leg and just about the same
as pulled the limb off the critter
Then he changed his mind backed
out and bowed his head to the
shock.
1t was a red day for bar. Es-
pecially in Geroux's swamp.
On that awful day, throughout
the length and breadth of Colonel
Geroux's cool and popular swamp,
nothing could be heard but the
deep, agonizing groans of dead and
dying bears.
And they do say, sort of private
ly and some az if they didn't ex-
pect us to believe it, that on the
way home, while dragging the car
casses Of the whole GerouX's swamp
bear family, this timid and modest
little Minnesota girl ran down two
gray wolves and chased a party OF
six tyamps along the railroad track
for three miles. Still some Mime
sofa editors will sit around and
write about the decadence of "Our
Girls and Young Women"
But if these editors will stop long
enough to put their ears to the
ground they will discover that the
rest of the country isn't saying a
word about the decadence of the
Minnesota liar. Not a whisper.
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The KEYSTONE has long been acknowi-
edged Ia be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and. located rs il ~ IN the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and lcav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers .
complete synopsis of all mining news ana
Developments as well as matters of local
importance in the growth of kctchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is an invalua-
bic guide for capital and informant TO the
settler of every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it,, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
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4 LITTLE SLANT.
How A Diminutive Hercules Demol-
ishes Furious Cowboy.

Sloane was an Ohio boy, and |
made his acquaintance and
chummed with him in the Ander-
sonviIle prison pen. We went west
together after the war, and at that
time he was only y years old. He
was ) feet 7 inches high, weighed
100 pounds, and was the strongest
man ever saw outside of a profess
sional wrestler or cannon-ball
tosser. His flesh was so hard that
he could crack a walnut on his leg.
One of the nerviest things in
Sloane's whole career happened at
Nasasota, on the Brazos river. We
were sitting on the veranda of the
hotel, when a fighter entered the
village on horseback and armed
with Winchester and two revol-
vers. He took drink or. two and
then started in to capture the
town. There was only one street,
and he rode up and down this at
full gallop, firing right and left and
uttcring terrific yells. In five min
utes. he had the town. People dis
appeared from sight with amazing
celebrity and everybody was thor
oughly cowed. The fellow fired
two shots among the sitters on the
veranda, and we stampeded. /
own up that had no desire for a
closer acquaintance with the ruilian,
and | was among the first to seek
cover. When we were all inside, ]
peercd cautiously from from win
dow and saw Sloane still outside.
He was on his feet, leaning against
column of the veranda and
smoking a cigar as coolly as you
please. | shouted for him to come
in, but he shook his head. Appeals
were made by others, but he turned
deaf ear
The cowboy had by this time
reached the lower end of the street
and turned to come back. lie came
at full gallop, but checked his horse
in front of the hotel and fired three
shots at Sloane from distance
of fifty feet. The first tipped past
his ear; the other two cut cloth
without drawing blood. We were
looking full at the shooter from the.
windows, and, as he fired the third
shot without bringing his man,
look of wonder came to his face,
and he bent for a closer look, and
shouted:
"Who are you, man or devil?"
George sauntered along to the
steps, slowly descended, and APP
preached the man, and as he came
near enough he grabbed for him
Next instant the cowboy was pulled
off his horse and being liter
ally mopped all over the road. He
tried to usep weapon, but was dis
armed with scarely an effort, and
when George got through with him
he lay as one dead. Rifle, revol-
vers and knife were broken and
flung in a heap beside him, and
George sat down on the steps to
finish his smoke. He had kept his
cigar alight through the fracas. |
personally interviewed the doctor
who was called to see the cowboy,
and he gave me a list of the injuries,
as follows: Left arm broken, three
scalp wounds, right shoulder prob
ably dislocated, three teeth knocked
out, five bad bruises on various
parts, one eye closed.
The fight did not last three min
utes, and yet the little giant laid
the fellow up for three good months
and taught him a lesson he never
forgot. / saw and talked with him
a year later, and he told me he
never was so scared in his life, and
that he was not yet entirely well
from the drubbing-N. y. Sun.
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"The story of o worm that eats
steel rails is now declared to bc
hoax" This surprises US, We sup
roeed It was nm internal lie."
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Great Upper Wood River Mining Region.


to resemble gold exactly, can be
made with 16. parts copper, l of
zinc and Z of platinum. The cop
per and platinum are covered first
with borax and then with powdered
charcoal and melted, then the zinc
added, and the alloy thus produced
is exceedingly maleable and can be
drawn into the finest wire, while it
never furnishes.
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Gold will only melt at comparI,,
atiyely high temperature. as we al
know hut what is not generally
known. the jewelers. Journal says,
is that if two per cent. Of silica be :,
added to the gold it can be melted
over the flame of common candie.
From the same source the reader
NAV learn that q pretty alloy, said
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Mamma" said little Bob, "can't
/ have another pie?'
mo, my dear. You have had
sufficient"
"But why can't l have more?"
"It might make you sick, and II
YOU become sick you might die"
"Die Just like Johnny Brown?"
eyes, my dear"
Everybody said he went to
heaven. mamma"
"Yes, dear. He is good little
boy and always minded what his
mamma told him"
"And people said, mamma, that
he'd be ever so much happier Ill
heaven than here"
"That is right, Bobby. So ne
would"
"Do all good little boys go to
heaven, mamma?"
"Yes, dear" :.
"Am / good little boy. mamma,
ayes, Bobby is a good little boy"
"Then why don't you let me have
another piece of pie? Don't you
want YOUR little Bobby to be hap
py?"--Pittsburg Dispatch.
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1t is said that ropes used for
sca!ioldins purposes, especially In
localities where the atmosphere is
apt to destroy hemp, should be
dipped when dry into n vat con-
tanning 20 grains of sulphate of
copper per inter Of water, and kept
in this solution ABOUT four days.
The sulphate of copper absorbed
will, it is believed, preserve them
from attacks 81 parasites and rot.
There is nothing in the world
that is n,eaner than a liar, unless,
perhaps, it is another liar.
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oyr is the legal newspaper Oh
The Asn snring. Creek, Wood River ana
"'.D .a,,b Mining Districts
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ssuKklNG y CLASSES ATTENTION.

viii srnl, now prepared to furnish all classes
Tue ~ -tloyInent at home. the whole of the
hsx G.t. LOT Their spare moments. business
er ,ss;I ana profitable Persons of either
.renino earn from 80 cents to s.. 90 per
lns ali ahu a proportional sum by devot-
srs earr ume to the business. Bows and
sho 200 a nearly as much as men. That all
'est the .,s h may send their address. and
sceh az business. We make this offer. To
ss dollar,. not well satisfied We will send
Fcn ps,,;uo . % pay Tor the trouble of writing.
Gfopnr a alars and outfit free. Address
oilssos & Co. Portland. Maine.
National Republican., 1887-03-21

DR.. Lconard's new assistant, the Rev. Charles
NJ. Pyne, Wilt enter upon his duties at st..
Johns Episcopal Church on Sunday next. Mr..
Pyne Is a captain on the retired list of the
army and Is also clergyman OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church. He entered the army in
April 1861, as a cOrporGl In Company A. 3D.
battalion, Distric; OF Columbia volunteers, and
for gallant and meritorious services was re-
peatedly promoted. finishing his military
career in december, 1870, as captain of the "a
infantry. If his clerical record will outshine
The one he has as u military man Mr.. Pyue
will be q most valuable assistant to DR..
Leonard, Mr.. Pyne's father was at one time
pAsIOr Of ST. Johns Church.
National Republican., 1887-03-21
THE SMALL THINGS OF A DAY,
Minor Occurrences In and About the
City.

Minor Occurrences in and About the
City.
Tooth filling made painless by the use Of
cocaine by s. I. Mason, dentist, 1901 Pennsyl-
vania avenue northwest.
r.; A postollce has been established at Kallna,
Dihwiddie county, Va.
A marriage license has been issued to VIM.
III. Benton and Florence NJ. Ieatman.
The Remington Arms Agency and Sports.
mems Emporium has its spring opening to.
day.
The Alumni Association of Columbia Uni
versity Will have their annual dinner at Will
lard's tomorrow night.
Bishop Paret last evening confirmed class
at ST. Johns chapel, on Twenty-second, near
eight.
At their rooms last Saturday the civil service
commission were engaged in examining appli.
cants for the limited, general, aud special
classes.
gate by the Pressmens Union to the interna
tonal convention, which meets in Buffalo
Lcxt June
A certified copy Of the will of Mrs. George
Dcfn, of New York, has been filed with the
register Mr.. WIN. d. Gardner and Miss Lola
ID. Gordner of this city, are among the heirs
John l. McDuell white, aiding sgeeia
tufbance at Seventh and N streets, was struck
on the head with brick by an unknown
peHon.
Laura d. b. Ford, better known as Duskey
White, aged 30 years, was arrested Saturday
morning by officer q. j. Hllbus on the charge
Of larceny of number Of small articles be.
longing 10 Anna W. Tarbell
The children of Lizzie Douglass, colored,
while plnyiny with matches at their home
1850 " street, Saturday evening set the bed on
fire. An alarm from box 80 was struck and the
iremen quickly put out the flames. Damage
about $40,
Josephine aud Anna NJ Fowler have entered
snit apninst Messrs. T.. O'Brien, John 4. Suter,
". A, Ward, ct al, rs officers Of Local Union
NJ. !, brotherhood Uf Carpenters and Joiners,
for money due them on account OF the death OF
their father.
Sixty of the ninety tickets which won prizes
agys nsn ocya Pd, at hs of hs fhs
thirty remaining prizes viii be held for
another week, If not called Tor. before being
otherv ise disposed OF.
scret. Duvall with squad of officers Satur.
day night faided an alleged gambling house.
kept by man named Miner +. Hamlin.
sryenteen N colored witnesses were pulled in the
raid besides the. proprietor. George Ferguson
on the way to the station assaulted Ohicer
George Wagner.
Messrs. Harry L. Davis and Guon Miller, as
the solicitors for Mr.. Francis Miller, the well
known lawyer, have entered suit against the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company to re.
cover 10000 for injuries sustained in the acci.
dent at the "Y" on the 1th instant.
The supreme officers OF the Knights of
Pythlas will visit tile city shortly on Official
business. committee. composed of one
delegate from each lodge, will look after their
entegainment during the stay here. The
various divisions are making active prepara
tons for the reception.
National Republican., 1887-03-21
Lodge Meetings Tonight.
The following lodges meet tonight at I
plpces named.

The following lodges meet tonight at the
places named:
Potomac, No. g. Georgetown; B. B. French,
No. Is, Masonic Temple; Anacostia, No. 81,
Anacostia; Pentalpba, No. %, Masonic Temple;
Stansbury, No. "a Brightwood Eureka, No. 5,
sos Eleventh street northwest.
Union Veterans Union-JOhn A. Logan, No.
2, Veterans Eall, 923 + street.
!. o. o. F.-Beacon, No. 10, Odd Fellows
Hall; Excelsior, No. II, Odd Fellows Hall;
Harmony, No. 9, Eighth Street Hail, East
Washington; Union. No. IL, Third street and
Pennsylvania avenue; Naomi, No. /, d. OF R.,
Moore's Hall, Seventh street.
Knights of Pythias-CGlanthe, No. II, Penn.
sylvania avenue and Ninth street northwest;
Equal, No. H. 3l4 Eighth street northwest;
Harmony, No. 81, Thirteen.and-a-half street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Knights of HOnor-Potomac, No. 1921.
/. o. of R.-Heber Tent, No. 10, Georgetown.
Improved Order of Red Men-Oslge. No 6,
1923 Seventh street northwest.
10. NJ Potomac, No. ., 600 G street north
west; Harmony, No. 10, Hilton's Hall, Seventh
and ID streets northwest.
Knights of the Golden Eaglc--Monarch, No,
Q, Elks' Hall, 902 Pennsylvania avenue.
National Republican., 1887-03-21
Hubdning XIcioua Horaas.

Prof. o. r. Gleason, who has acquired re-
markable skin IN mastering vicious horses. has
leased the Street Rink for short time, and
will give his first exhibition this evening. In
other places he has won great praise for the
manner In which he handles and suDdues
wild and wicked horses, winning the name of
king of horse trainers. Those having horses
they are unable to control are invited to bring
them to the rink and let the professor show
how easy and quickly an animal can be made
many, especially those who deal with aud
work among horses.
National Republican., 1887-03-21
lsargain Now.

In order TO start trade at once we are going
to offer goods at bottom prices. Fifty Black
or Brown CoTkscrew Suits In sack or Cutaway,
SIS for sl2, only is of them LETT Boys Suits,
worth $3.50 Tor So; Children's suits. worth
$3.50 for s2 80: Lnee Pants, So and so cents.
Come and get these bargains while they last
of finer goods Mt bargain prices at 02i Seventh
street northwest, two doors below Bnrietts
dry goods house. SMITH, the Clothier fur bar
the greatest invention OF the age; night turned
into lay.
National Republican., 1887-03-21

In addition to the subscription already au-
rouneed for the relief of the earthquake sur-.
terers in Italy the following have been re.
ceived: Cash through Mr.. NJ. +. Morris. s2j ;
Mrs. Chas. a. Mum, S2l Mr.. Costaggini, $40
Mrs. Thum,. lPhiladelphia,l sl0 G. Desc, IS
CristOiani. 50; James G.. Berret, 50 Casazza,
90 Sam Philippe, 50; Tlnaglia, 50 G. Desio,
81 b. Dondero ,s9;, C.. Rallo, o.; b. Christie.
fani, s2 G. Ghellinl, 81. Dl. Marco 81 ; p.
Lavigni, 81 +. Lavigni, 81 Grill, 81. Total
receipts Si03. Committees have been ap'
pointed to solicit subscriptions.
National Republican., 1887-03-21
REV. U. o. MoHR,
Boy Ii Revnnldls Rri1nn Con n
GUILTY OF LACUES.
Questioning the Title to Certain Wharf
Property.

Property.
Smith Thompson and others brought a bill
in equity as the heirs of Gilbert L. Thompson
against the devisces of william A. Bradley, aud
claim that Bradley, acting as agent for Thomp.
son, made various purchases of several pieces
oiprorerty, with water fronts, in Georgetown,
and also Analostan island, that because of
their various dealings Bradley eventually be-
came the owner of the half interest In the pur-
Chases. They alleged that the original deeds
were taken in the name of Bradley, and he
never In his lifetime denied the trust, and
while claiming he was part owner up unto
his death he admitted he held the other half
in trust. Although Thompson and Bradley
frequently sought settlement and account
ing, such was never reached, and the
same remains unsettled and they seek q de-
cree and accounting and a partifioning Of the
property as between the heirs Of Thompson
and devisees of Bradley. The defendants de-
INJURED on the ground that the complainantss
by the court. Messrs. Hildebrant and Du-
hamel appeared for the complainants and
MessIs. Dayidge and Fendall for defendants.
"OH my head!" No need of this pitiful cry,
Nnu bava CT Ioonhe 0il n haal yoii
National Republican., 1887-03-21
Conference of Christian Workers,

The Central Union Mission advisory board
have issued a call for conference of Christian
workers 10 be held at tho rooms of the mission,
$50 Pennsylvania avenue, on the evening Of
The 22d instant. Each evangelical church Will
be represented by its pastor and one lay repre-
sentative. The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, the Womens Christian Temperance
been invited TO take part in the deliberations
OF the conference. Plans will be formulated
for thorough evangelical campaign in this
ritv